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No, The Toolbar Does Not Lead Google To Index My Content

Matt Cutts of Google has posted another one of his debunking theories post, this time on the Google Toolbar aiding Google in indexing content.

Matt said, "if Ken Simpson is implying that the Google Toolbar led to these urls being crawled, then he’s mis

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Offline access soon for Gmail, Google Calendar?

Google doesn't deny that it's working on bringing offline access to two major Web applications, Gmail and Calendar, but a sign emerged Thursday that the feature--which would be a major expansion of the applications' utility and competitive threat--is due

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Gmail Tries to Be Less Creepy, Fails

Gmail, Google's powerful web based email service, announced some changes to its contact management features today. Contact management has for some time been a contentious matter among Google Account holders - the company does strange and mysterious things

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Google Continues To Test A Search Interface That Looks More Like Digg Every Day

A couple of days ago we posted screen shots of a new search interface being bucket tested by Google that lets users vote up or down on search results. The resulting interface was very Digg-like, and included a total vote count, etc.

Today Adrian Pike, th

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Lycos offers OpenSocial Web-publishing tool

Lycos has released a new Web-publishing tool based on Google's OpenSocial API that allows users to create Web sites that take advantage of social networks, the company said Tuesday.

Lycos also revealed developer tools on Tuesday that allow users to build

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Google as the new pressroom

When I saw Edward Roussel, head of digital for the Telegraph, on my last trip to London, he said over breakfast that he’d been thinking about my book title’s question — What Would Google Do? — in relation to newspapers and he came up with a radica

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Google Getting Close to 70% of U.S. Search Market

According to the latest data from Hitwise, Google gained yet another percentage point on its biggest competitors last month and now accounts for more than 69.17% of U.S. searches. In the U.K. and Australia, Google's market share has climbed above 87%. Thi

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Talking Schmidt

Google CEO Eric Schmidt says the world would be “better off” if Yahoo were to remain independent. And perhaps it would be–assuming you define “world” as “Google,” as Schmidt and the rest of Google’s executive leadership almost certainly do

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More tools for citizen participation

Political participation isn't just about casting your vote; everyone should be able to become an informed participant instantly. When Americans want to learn about candidates and issues using Google, we find that they want more than one source, and immed

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Is Google's iPhone app all that?

With so much fairy dust in the air over Apple's day-early release of the App Store and iTunes 7.7 (for Windows and Mac), it's easy to get caught up in the excitement. And we are excited. Being the intrepid reviewers we are, we're taking the unofficial iPh

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